Re: Imporant Question Concerning Biggest bang,IORR, and copyrighted material
Date: June 8, 2007 20:13
The theory is quite simple: From a legal perspective, you would not even be allowed to post an audience or a broadcast recording. Even if you have made the recording yourself: the music belongs to the stones and they may decide wether they want to release it or not. The only thing you are allowed to do, e.g., is to record a broadcast for your own, private purposes, and also to make copies of that for your again private purposes, e.g. to give to your sister or the like. You now could argue that also posting here is somewhat private, since the audience is relatively limited. However, even this forum clearly exceeds the 'privateness', this is public.
In short, it is theoretically also illegal to post audience and broadcast recordings. In reality, however, it looks as if BV had either a kind of gentleman's agreement with the stones camp that they don't bother about the hot stuff site as long as there is nothing posted which has been released officially, in other words where the stones would loose money if we downloaded it for free. Or it is the general stones policy that they do not bother too much about real bootlegs, as long as noone else is making money out of it and as long as it is not an illegal copy or download of their official stuff.